Quote:All Hope Is Gone is the fourth studio album by American metal band Slipknot. It is scheduled for release on August 25, 2008 in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States by Roadrunner Records. Noted to have begun preparation in October 2007, recording was due to begin in January 2008, but was pushed back to February.[SUP][2][/SUP] It will be the band's first studio release since 2004's Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses), making All Hope Is Gone their fourth studio album as well as the first musical output from the band since Corey Taylor and Jim Root's mainstream success with Stone Sour, Joey Jordison's stints with Korn, Ministry and 3 Inches of Blood, Shawn Crahan's side project Dirty Little Rabbits and Sid Wilson's solo project. All Hope Is Gone is also the band's first studio album on a major label to be recorded in their home state of Iowa.A special Japanese edition of All Hope Is Gone released on August 20, 2008 will contain an exclusive bonus track, and will be packaged in a six-fold digipak with a 40-page deluxe booklet and bonus DVD, containing a documentary of the album's conception.[SUP][3][/SUP] Special editions of the album containing bonus DVDs are also scheduled for release elsewhere.